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TAILORS MEASURE.

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'UNITED STATES PATENT VOEEICE.

HUGH BROLLY, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

TAI Lo Rs MEASURE.

SPECIFICATION forming' part Of Letters Patent N0. 277,453, dated May 15, 1883. Application iled September 4, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HUGH BRoLLY, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at Albany, in the county ot Albany and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Coat-Measuring Instrument, ot' which the following is a full and clear descriptiomreference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciiication.

My invention relates to an instrument for taking the measurements of size and proporlished lines on the instrument, which will be at right angles with each other, and be readily transferred to paper or cloth fordrat'tin g the forms of patterns or parts of coats in agreement with the measurements previously taken. I attain this object by means of the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and the mode ot' procedure also illustrated in the same, in whichi Figure l is aperspective view of my improved instrument with its face side up and arranged for transfer of measurements to paper or cloth. Fig. 2 is a view ofthe instrument from its rear side with the tapes adjusted and arranged for measurement of the person. Fig. 3 is a profile view of the person being measured by the instrument. Fig. 4 is a rear view ot the same; and Fig. 5 is a view of draft of patterns of parts of a coat, illustrating' the manner in which the' instrument is employed for atranst'er of measurements.

The same letters ot' reference indicate like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the instrument or coat-measurer, in which said body is shown to be in the form ofa cross, with limbs A', A2, A3, and A, of which limb A is provided with a scale made from point lc upward under a division for ",eighths7 ot' breast-measure,77 and is intended to establish the point of line ot' top of side seam. The scale on limb A2 is also made from point k, and is divided on the scye-line77 in ratio of three-eighths to one inch,` and by vit the width The scale of scye or arm-hole is established. ou limb A3 runs upward from the lower end of saidlimb, and is divided for sixths otbreastmeasure, and 4is only used for drafting the sleevehearh The scale on limb A4 is made on the scye-line ot' the said limb and from point 7c, and is divided i'rom said point nby sixths of breast-measure, by which the gorepoint line is-established. With this cross of limbs of the instrument are employed three tape-measures, each bearing inch-scale, as tapes T, T', and T2, in which tape T is pivoted to pivot m, placed central at the arms, as shown, and tape T to pivot rcon the intersection of limb A3, for tinding the sinking ofthe waist.77

Tape T2 is used interchangeably with pivots n and w, and to the former when measurements are made from the person, and to the latter when a transfer ot measurement is made to the cloth or pattern.'

When the instrument is to be used for taking measurements from the person ot the customer, the several said tapes' will have their scale sides turned down, so as to face the face side of the scales on the limbs of the instrument, or the reverse to that shown in Fig. l, and with tape T2 buttoned to pivot n. The instrument will then be placed in an erect position Linder the left arm ofthe person measured, and, as shown in Fig. 3, with the limb A forward-ot' the shoulder and pressing the front of the same, and with limb A2 square across under the armpit, in which position the instrument is held by thelei't hand of the measurer, as shown in said Fig. 3. The operator, thus holding the instrument, will handle thc tapes with his right hand, and will, with tape T2 swinging from pivot c, measure to back-seam 9 line a, Fig. 4, in line ot' direction of scye-line b, same figure, and, with the same measure or tape, will measure up to the collar on backseam line a to point c, in direction oi' line No. 3, Fig. 4. Dropping tape T2 and taking up IOO tape T', he will measure off in direction of line of sinking of waistv to point d, Fig. 4, and dropping tape T', the measurer will, with tape T, run the same from forward of shoulder up to top of back-seam as to point c, Fig. 3, and then, with the same tape, measure up and over the shoulder-point to scye-line b on back-seam a,

. in direction of line f, as indicated in Figs. 3

and 4. It is supposed that as the several measurements are taken they are properly entered in the usual manner in a measure-book, to be subsequently referred -to by the measurer or cutter.

Having described the instrument and vits several parts, I will illustrate the manner in which .the several measurements taken are transferred to the cloth, and the several points in the measurement are establishedon the cloth to be cut, or the paper from which patterns are to be made, making reference to Figs. 3 and 4, and also to Fig. 5, illustrating a diagram of the patterns. For the purpose of this illustration I will set forth an assumed measurement ofthe person of a customer previously taken by my instrument, as follows: the breast-measure, thirty-sixinches; the measure on scye-line b by tape T2, eleven inches; the measure from top of scye-line by the same tape to top of back-seam, fifteen inches; that by tape T' to the point of sinking of waist at back-seam, as at d, nine and one-half inches; and that by tape T to top of back-seam, as at c, twelve and one-half inches; and that by the same tape to over the point of shoulder to intersection of scye-line b with back-seam a, seventeen inches. With these several measure- 'ments before him, the cutter will proceed as follows to effect a transfer of them to cloth or paperCin Fig. 5: Tape T2 will be transferred to pivot w, and the several tapes be arranged with their scale sides up, as shown in Fig. l. The operator will next proceed to adjust the instrument in proper situation and position on.

cloth C. This he will do b v laying the instrument down on the cloth with its face side up, and set the same off to the left to a distance back from back-seam line a, previously drawn, t'oa distancc equal to the No. 1l on tape T2 scale, with the upper edge or scye-line edge of the limbs A2 and A4 at right angles with the back-seam line a, and produceon the cloth scyelineb, and when thus set he will `point off on the cloth at No. l1 of the scale on limb A2,

- and draw lineg upward from the same at right angles to scye-line b,Fig. 5,and line g willrepresent back-s cye of arm-hole. The operator will then, with the same tape, T2, measure off fifteen inches, according to the scale on said tape, to top of back-seam as to point c, as indicated by dotted lines No. 3. He will then, with tape T', lay off the curved line l from a radius of nine and one-half inches by scale on said tape to establish the point of sinking of the waist. He will then, by breast-scale on limbA'l, set off one-sixth of the breast-measure from front scye-line b', point i', which -will fall on the No. 36 of scale on limb A4, and from said pointt' square up gore point line j at right angles to line b, as shown. He will then, with tape T, cut off on gore-pointlinej twelve and one-half inches by scale on said tape, point c' corresponding with point c, before mentioned, which is point of top of back-seam. Then with same tape, T, he will measure up by the scale thereon a dist-ance of seventeen inches, as to point f on linej, which will.correspond with the measurement over point of shoulder to intersection of scye-line b with back-seam line a. He will next strike from point k curved line l at a radius equal to distance between points 7c and t', and will then find point o by producing from point I cto gore-point c' line m, which will cross curved line l, and the point of intersection will be point o, and from said point o he will strike curved line a from point f back toward back-seam line a.

Having thus established the several points and lines above mentioned in perfect agreement with the several measures and scales, the instrument is removed, and the lmeasurer will then proceed to draft the several parts or pieces of the coat in the usual manner practiced by the trade. f

It will be readily understood that as the several measurements of the person were taken from the several pivots fixed to the respective limbs of the instrument, and that they are also transferred to the cloth from the same pivots, substantially, that perfect accuracy of transfer is had.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

l; The device A, composed ofcross-limbs A', A2, A3, and A4, and bearing-each their respective scales, substantially as shown and described, for the purposes set forth.

2. In a coat-measuring instrument, the combination, with cross-limbs A', A2, A2, and A, provided with 'pivots x, fw, o, and u, of tapes T, T', and T2, provided with scale-measurement, all substantially as set forth, for the purpose specified.

3. In a coat-measuring instrument, the com bination, with tape T2, provided with*- scale, of cross-limbs A', A2, A3, and A4', made in fixed connection with each other, with limb A2 bear- -ing the scale described, and said tape pivoted to said limb, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

HUGH BROLLY. Witnesses:

W. F. PARNHAM,- R. P. DUMARY.

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